Identifier	Thesis 2016
Author	Smith, Scott R.
Title	Aerial Perspective and Geography: An Historical Look at the Use of Aircraft to Gain a Sense of Place
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date of Publication	2009
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Abstract	In the early days of aviation, particularly after World War I, many geographers wrote about the value of observing a place from above. They thought aerial observations would be a valuable aid to regional studies. This early enthusiasm for observing places from above seems to have followed a similar pattern to the broader field of regional geography. The use of aerial observation declined in popularity among geographers during the mid-twentieth century. The use of aviation as a geographic tool also went through a quantification revolution. Aerial observation became seen primarily as a tool for automatic data gathering by remote sensors. The value of direct observation of the landscape from an aircraft received little attention among geographers after the quantification revolution of the 1960s and 1970s but the interest has been renewed in the past decade. The purpose of this thesis is to trace the historical uses of aviation, over the past century, as a geographic field method used to gain an aerial perspective. There are many opportunities for geographers or students of geography to either take a flight in an aircraft, to read aerial descriptions, or to analyze photography taken by others while flying over a region. This thesis contends that the study of geography can be enriched by gaining an aerial perspective through flight.
Subject	Earth -- Aerial views -- History Aerial photography in geography -- History Geography
Department	Department of Geography
Advisor	Pope, Cynthia
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713735119
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